Bug 159763

Summary:	desktop icons without rounded boxes
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Rares Sfirlogea <rrr.junior>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
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Description Rares Sfirlogea 2008-03-23 22:14:15 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
OS:                Linux

I can't really imagine why this is in this state and maybe I'm too nosy but the desktop icons within those grey rounded boxes are just unaesthetic and use a lot of my visual space of the desktop. An option to have a classic look would be something useful. As for the hovering thing that may be useful but still the default look is rather bad.

Comment 1 Marco Martin 2008-03-24 12:33:11 UTC

it has been discussed for a quite long time.
the rounded grey boxed are here because if there is a wallpaper with the same color of icon text it wouldn't be possible to read the icon text.
it is possible that in the future the text will have an halo around and the box appearing only on mouseover. it's not going away because it must connect the icons with action icons (a thing that is not used at the moment but will be used)
and by the way, desktop icons as a filemanager view of the ~/Desktop folder are going to be completely removed

Comment 2 Michael 2008-05-23 13:54:57 UTC

Have a look here: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157297

Comment 3 Jason Stubbs 2008-06-01 07:56:35 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 157297 ***